All 7 Uses
derive
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Starship Troopers
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- But a neodog is not a talking dog; he is not a dog at all, he is an artificially mutated symbiote derived from dog stock.†
Chpt 2 *derived = got
- These kitchen illustrations demolish the Marxian theory of value — the fallacy from which the entire magnificent fraud of communism derives — and to illustrate the truth of the common-sense definition as measured in terms of use.†
Chpt 6derives = gets
- The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it.†
Chpt 8
- To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives — such as mine to make your lives miserable once a day.†
Chpt 12
- I got sawed off and handed this: Required: to prove that war and moral perfection derive from the same genetic inheritance.†
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- Morals — all correct moral rules derive from the instinct to survive; moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level — as in a father who dies to save his children.†
Chpt 12
- But since population pressure results from the process of surviving through others, then war, because it results from population pressure, derives from the same inherited instinct which produces all moral rules suitable for human beings.†
Chpt 12derives = gets
Definitions:
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(1)
(derive) to get something from something else
(If the context doesn't otherwise indicate where something came from, it is generally from reasoning--especially deductive reasoning.) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)